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| E-Blocks® USA commissioned an independent evaluation of the E-Blocks® program from Educational Support Systems, Inc. -- a company with extensive experience in program evaluation.
ESS collected information from a sample of California public school sites over a period of several months. ESS evaluators visited sites, reviewed test results, and spoke with educators during every step of the E-Blocks® experience.
While the study and assessments are on-going, preliminary results are exciting and reinforce the guidelines for enhanced literacy development with E-Blocks®. The study involves children in kindergarten, first grade and some older children in a pull-out or sheltered program for language development.
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DIBELS
ASSESSMENT RESULTS FIRST GRADE |
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Letter
Naming |
Phoneme
Segmentation |
Nonsense
word
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Oral
Reading Fluency |
Retelling
Fluency |
| Site
#1 |
B1
9/7/05 |
B1
9/7/05 |
B2
12/9/05 |
B1
9/7/05 |
B2
12/9/05 |
B1
12/9/05 |
B1
12/9/05 |
| E-Blocks
Group Spanish Home Language |
49,8 |
35,6 |
54,2 |
43,2 |
79,2 |
53,4 |
25,7 |
| Control
Group Spanish Home Language |
37,4 |
24,6 |
44,2 |
23,8 |
41,8 |
29,4 |
6,2 |
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Independent assessment conducted by Educational Support Systems (ESS), San Mateo, CA. Preliminary assessment results in California schools
using Levels 0 & 1, show marked success for ELL children using E-Blocks®. Students used E-Blocks® 15 minutes a day, 4 days each week. |
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